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	<title>Crikey &#187; Budget 08</title>
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		<title>Budget Reply: Nelson&#8217;s economic cred on death row</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/budget-reply-nelsons-economic-cred-on-death-row/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/budget-reply-nelsons-economic-cred-on-death-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson’s deeply self-contradictory Budget Reply last night leaves Australia stuck without a credible Opposition, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Nelson&#8217;s petrol price cut = embarrassing farce</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/nelsons-petrol-price-cut-embarrassing-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/nelsons-petrol-price-cut-embarrassing-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aping Clinton and McCain's ideas on cutting petrol price is laughbaly bad politics, argues <b>Adam Schwab</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the wrath of the stay-at-home mum</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/beware-the-wrath-of-the-stay-at-home-mum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/beware-the-wrath-of-the-stay-at-home-mum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alcopops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wayne Swan's budget failed to mention stay-at-home mums at all amid grandstanding about increasing child care rebates for PM Kevin Rudd's much vaunted "working families", writes <b>Neil Walker</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Comitatus Column: The Tarago Tax</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/comitatus-column-the-tarago-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/comitatus-column-the-tarago-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brendan Nelson's rage against the 'Tarago Tax' needs a bit of a reality check, <b>writes Possum Comitatus</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Get stuck into the wine, penny-pinchers!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/get-stuck-into-the-wine-penny-pinchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/get-stuck-into-the-wine-penny-pinchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[alcopops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spirit drinkers are being slugged considerably more for their booze than beer drinkers. But it's the winos who win the excise wars, writes <b>Richard Farmer </b>.
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		<title>Eva Cox: How the Budget demonises rich women</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/eva-cox-how-the-budget-demonises-rich-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/16/eva-cox-how-the-budget-demonises-rich-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baby Bonus]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two minor income tests to Family Tax Benefit B and the Baby Bonus have been puffed and discussed as though the recipient were Cruella de Ville, writes <b>Eva Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Family tax benefits still a mass of contradictions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/family-tax-benefits-still-a-mass-of-contradictions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/family-tax-benefits-still-a-mass-of-contradictions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tinkering around the edges of the existing layer cake system of family benefits will not fix the problem of middle class welfare, writes <b>Jessica Brown</b> of the CIS.]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Fund &#8212; why they can&#8217;t just  give it back</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/the-future-fund-why-they-cant-just-give-it-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/the-future-fund-why-they-cant-just-give-it-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s accept that, as good "fiscal conservatives", the government cannot just "give this money back". Then how are they going to spend it? Writes <b>Peter Saunders</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Arts funding sticks to status quo</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/arts-funding-sticks-to-status-quo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/arts-funding-sticks-to-status-quo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no grand Labor arts agenda in sight just yet, but Peter Garrett has left the door open for more youth and regional programming in future, writes <b>Nick Pickard</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget boredom for schools but watch this space</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/budget-boredom-for-schools-but-watch-this-space/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/budget-boredom-for-schools-but-watch-this-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget may have held only boring news for schools, but the new quadrennial funding agreement due later this year will have a far greater impact, writes <b>Jennifer Buckingham</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Oh the humanity! Tonight&#8217;s Brendan Nelson budget reply today!</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/oh-the-humanity-tonights-brendan-nelson-budget-reply-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/oh-the-humanity-tonights-brendan-nelson-budget-reply-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A distraught Brendan Nelson this evening confronted the Rudd Government, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b> .
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		<title>Altman: Closing the gap rhetoric buys into Howard legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/altman-closing-the-gap-rhetoric-buys-into-howard-legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/altman-closing-the-gap-rhetoric-buys-into-howard-legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are 37 new measures identified "to help begin the process of closing the gap"  in the Budget but most of the major commitments are from the 2007–08 Howard government budget, writes <b>Jon Altman</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Boost for Housing Supply: HIA chief</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/boost-for-housing-supply-hia-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/boost-for-housing-supply-hia-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit crunch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first Swan budget is a step in the right direction for solving the problem of housing supply, writes <b>Chris Lamont</b> from HIA. ]]></description>
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		<title>Comitatus: not much wriggle room for Turnbull</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/comitatus-not-much-wriggle-room-for-turnbull/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/comitatus-not-much-wriggle-room-for-turnbull/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snookered – it’s the only way to describe what the ALP has done to the Coalition writes <b>Possum Comitatus</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Milne: The great climate betrayal</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/milne-the-great-climate-betrayal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/15/milne-the-great-climate-betrayal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who thought the Rudd government was serious about climate change, Tuesday night's budget was a rude shock, writes Australian Greens Climate Change spokesperson <b>Christine Milne</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Thornton: What education revolution?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/thornton-what-education-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/thornton-what-education-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened the the 'public' in 'public university', asks Margaret Thornton?]]></description>
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		<title>Mayne: Infrastructure funds hide state bailouts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/mayne-infrastructure-funds-hide-state-bailouts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/mayne-infrastructure-funds-hide-state-bailouts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Feds rolling in cash and the states hurtling down the debt path, something had to give, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Graham: A missed opportunity for Indigenous affairs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/graham-a-missed-opportunity-for-indigenous-affairs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/graham-a-missed-opportunity-for-indigenous-affairs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Indigenous affairs, it's not exactly bad news though Wayne Swan's a bit of a miser, writes <b>Chris Graham</b>.
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		<title>Errington: Wayne and the ghosts of budgets past</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/errington-wayne-and-the-ghosts-of-budgets-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/errington-wayne-and-the-ghosts-of-budgets-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest single measure in the budget – cuts in income tax – was authored by John Howard, writes <b>Wayne Errington</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>MacCallum: Swan delivers where it counts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/maccallum-swan-delivers-where-it-counts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/maccallum-swan-delivers-where-it-counts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If budgets have ceased to be pivotal economic occasions, they can still be important political turning points, writes <b>Mungo MacCallum</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Quiggin: Swan avoided the hard decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/quiggin-swan-avoided-the-hard-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike previous incoming governments, the Rudd government did a good job in keeping its promises, even if households on incomes over $150, 000 may feel unhappy, writes <b>John Quiggin</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Keane: Budget plays Malcolm Turnbull for a fool</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/keane-budget-plays-malcolm-turnbull-for-a-fool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/keane-budget-plays-malcolm-turnbull-for-a-fool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, the Prime Minister used declarations of bipartisanship to play Brendan Nelson off a break. Last night, it was Malcolm Turnbull's turn, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Gump balances the soft and hard centres</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/wayne-gump-balances-the-soft-and-hard-centres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/wayne-gump-balances-the-soft-and-hard-centres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just call Wayne Swan Forrest Gump. He's delivered a boring, cautious budget that won’t offend too many people but which will prove a hit with the punters, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Hamilton: Will the budget remake Howard&#8217;s Australia?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/hamilton-will-the-budget-remake-howards-australia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/hamilton-will-the-budget-remake-howards-australia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The budget, and the reaction to it, are a good test of the extent to which the Howard Government really did transform Australian society, writes <b>Clive hamilton</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Davidson: A Pinocchio, not Robin Hood, budget</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/davidson-a-pinocchio-not-robin-hood-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/05/14/davidson-a-pinocchio-not-robin-hood-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Rudd Government’s first budget did not deliver Robin Hood, but has almost delivered Pinocchio. The Swan inflation narrative is now entirely discredited, writes <b>Sinclair Davidson</b>.]]></description>
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